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By George Robbins

The film industry has faced many an issue as of late and things don’t seem like they will necessarily be getting better any time in the near future. The same thing can be said about pretty much every other industry out there right now and there is not much that can be done about any of it because it pertains especially to the pandemic as a whole. This pandemic is easily responsible for many businesses being shut down to some degree that is entirely uncontrollable due to the new health and safety guidelines in place for the general public. These guidelines can best be explained as ways for the government to keep people from spreading disease as there really isn’t any other reason for them to exist. With that being said, there is a lot going on in numerous industries and especially the film industry which is shut down in some ways but not in others.

Within the film industry are the countless issues that come along with the pandemic and chiefly among those has been the fact that theaters have been shut down. Movie theaters are the main source of income for movie studios who are putting their movies out for the public to watch and without them, they are kind of limited on how they can release films. In particular, they have had to release their movies to digital to make up for the fact that theaters have pretty much been shut down as of late. Even if theaters were open, they wouldn’t be able to do anything because they weren’t able to bring customers in due to fear from the pandemic. On top of this, not every studio is going with the digital release method as they would rather wait out the pandemic and see how things are going later on.

If later on, movie theaters are actually able to open again and the pandemic isn’t as bad as it is now, then movie studios could try to release their films again. In the meantime, however, there isn’t much that can be done so most films are simply on hiatus until further notice. So if they can’t release any movies, then they are just building up a roster of releasable movies at this point that they can play once things calm down. Movie productions managed to start back up again a few months after the initial wave of the pandemic hit and as a result, a few of them have already managed to finish filming. This inevitably just keeps adding them to the list of films that need to release at some point and that list just keeps getting longer. Of course this can end up working out for the studios as this means they have more time to work on marketing and ensuring there are no issues upon release.

All-in-all, the situation is still pretty annoying for everyone involved and even those who aren’t as the everyday consumer can attest. Therefore, it is pretty easy to see at this point that people are willing to find ways of doing things outside of what would be considered the norm at this point. Despite the ever-changing world that we currently reside in, there are plenty of things which we can sort of rejoice in being the same. Chief among those things is the fact that sequels to old movies are more and more common nowadays than ever before. While those sequels cannot necessarily release to the public any time soon due to the whole theater situation, we will get to see them eventually. This, of course, leads to more people being excited about those films in the long run. Included in those films that we won’t see for a while yet is the sequel ‘Top Gun: Maverick‘ that so many people have been looking forward to.

‘Top Gun: Maverick’ is the much-looked forward to movie that fans of the original ‘Top Gun‘ have been waiting for and it has become host to a series of unfortunate events just like every other movie right now. Like most other movies right now, the movie is awaiting a time frame where it can be properly released to the public and that is still a ways off. Originally, the movie was meant to release over the summer like many other blockbusters this year, but that was inevitably pushed back to late this year. Now obviously, we are into the late part of this year and the movie is now nowhere to be seen as it has yet again been pushed back into the summer of 2021. This means that it has officially been pushed back by over a year which was something that we anticipated but were hopeful that it wouldn’t end up coming down to this in the end.

The movie ended up being pushed back as the movie theater industry started failing due to the various issues it is now facing as well as the fact they haven’t been able to bring in a steady stream of revenue. Thus, summer 2021 is a fair bit of distance that the studio is giving itself so that things can hopefully calm down a bit between now and then. Even if the pandemic is not wrangled in by then, they are at least hoping that there is enough thought going into handling the pandemic as possible so that people won’t be as worried about going to theaters. The pandemic ending or new ideas put out for people to go to theaters are the only two ways we will see this movies, as well as other, eventually hitting theaters. Of course, people want to see this movie as soon as they can because it sees Tom Cruise reprising his role as one of his most iconic characters. On top of this, people want to see just what it is that Tom Cruise can pull off with this upcoming sequel.

As most people are well aware of now, Tom Cruise is insane when it comes to the movies that he stars in because he is known for doing his own stunts. Cruise is almost always trying to top his previous stunts from his other films and has most notably tried to do so a number of times with the ‘Mission: Impossible’ films. Just recently, his ‘Mission Impossible 7’ co-star, Simon Pegg admitted that the stunts that he pulls off scare those on set due to the danger he puts himself in whenever he does them. Not only has he managed to scare co-stars because of the danger of his stunts, but he also doesn’t always come out of those stunts unscathed, making the worry from co-stars warranted. Now, he seems to be going even harder on his stunts and is more than willing to do anything to try and outdo himself in some way, shape, or form. This even includes goin to actual outer space to make a movie instead of just simulating space on a set which is a completely unheard of feat.

Despite the fact that he is literally going to outer space in the near future to make a film, Tom Cruise can still be excited to work on his projects on Earth. ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ just so happens to be one of those projects that he can work on and get excited for even when it is just a sequel for a very old film. It also helps that the movie literally involved him having to be inside of an actual jet flying at extremely high speed which an adrenaline junkie would love. Thus, it isn’t too unreasonable that he would be excited to work on a film like this once again at a time in his life where he is now used to that sort of thing and enjoys it a lot. Hopefully, we can see that joy on the big screen during the summer next year. Unfortunately, there is no guarantee that we will get to see the film around then, but we can most certainly hope that this is the case.